San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-28
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


SIR WILFRED BLoUNT gets the blunt
| edge of n two months sentence IN jail for
daring TO open his mouth on Irish soil.
SAN ANTONIO does not monkey with
the boom, but she is making steady and
assured progress towards industrial In
crease.
THE spectacle Of Mrs. Davis and
| daughter kissing the emblem OF rebel
| lion and treason, at Macon, is enough to
Lraw tears from the eyes OF whole
| gross OF dsrning needles.
ENGLAND has about ceased tempOriZ-
| ing with the Venezuelan authorities for
| the collection OF her debt, and proposes
| to blockade the ports OF that country II
payment 10 not Immediately made.
John Bull is generally good collector.
JUDGE WURzBACH Is of the opinion that
| the law has been fully complied with in
| the cases Of the justices OF this city who
are reputed to have been holding courts
contrary TO statute, in that these courts
we're not held at time and place specl-
| fled by the county court.
ZULULAND is again on the eve ola war
| against English authority. Ceteway,
though dead, yet speaketh, and CalOis
native patriotic chief, heads the rising.
Sir Arthur HsvelOck, governor OF Natal,
has taken 800 troops and marched for
the scene Of insurrectiOn.
The United States geological survey,
at Washington, have adViCes from their
geOlOgist at COrsiCana, Texas, who is
making Investigations there, and who
reports all exceedingly fine collection OF
fossils of the Ripley group. Professor
White makes no mention of the unusu-
ally fine collection Of fossils Of the legis-
! latiye strata, group 10Th. 1t will not be
forgotten that this group OF fossils cor
raled a state geological survey last win
ter and squeezed the breath of life out
of it.
THE Texas Live Stock journal, of Fort
| Worth, is out with a thirty-twO page
| special edition devoted to the interests
| OF the Panhandle country. The Fort
| plays no second fiddle in the orchestra
thst tunes up for the glOries OF the Pan
handle. IfFOrt Worth had San Anto-
MOS natural advantages, che would
make all creation howl at the manner in
which she would spread the knowledge
of those advantages broadcast.
In California the old citizens, who
have resided in the doomed localities
for years, are selling out all their effects
and moving away bag and baggage.
! They consider the present values tiCti-
tIOus, and sell while purchasers are
| greedy to buy. Rats desert a sinking
ship. When old settlers are selling out
en- masst, ii is poor time for new com
ers to buy. The very reverse is the
case IN San Antonio. Old land owners
! Fnr - rn1
reaching out for more. This is a healthy
sign OF coming prosperity, and one not
lost sight OF by sagaclOus capitalists.
| ANARCHIST PARsON's old assembly at
| Chicago threatens to withdraw from the
knights OF Labor, and announces the In
auguratiOn OF a bitter war against Pow
derry. Ii is well. Better an open enemy
than a concealed foe. Better far, that
the knights of Labor should be ia eter-
nal sntagOnism 10 the anarchists than
be made IN any sense responsible for
their deeds. POWderly will be cOngratu-
lated by all the best labor associations in
America on this declaration of war by
the anarchist element Of this country.
The enmity Of these men is an enduring
honor, their friendship would be an
everlasting disgrace.
The Hamilton Eubanks case is again
attracting attention and engaging the
courts in Mississippi. The case has
been moss ably argued and the decision
will probably be rendered early next
week. This appeal has been most stub
bOrnly fought, and these preliminary
struggles only show the deep determIna-
IiOn Of both parties to exhaust every
remedy known to the courts before &C
knOwledging defeat. When the real is
sue comes it will be a battle of grints.
1t already ranks as one OF the most re-
marKable cases in the history OF GRIM
inal practice in the state OF Mississippi.
The astronomical world will be re-
joiced to learn that the great telescope
for the Lick observatory, for which 1t
has so long and so patiently waited, is at
last completed and will be Immediately
shipped to its destination and mounted
in the observatory on Mount Hamilton,
Cal. Some idea Of Its magnitude may
be gained from the statement that the
center of motion is thirty-seven feet
above the base, and when the telescope
is pointed towards the zenith the thirty
six inch object glass is siXty-fve feet
from the base. The total weight of the
instrument is thirty-fiVe tons. With
such an instrument one could almost see
the cleaning glOries OF the pearly
gates.
A GENTLEMAN recently returned from
st. Louis and who always travels with
his eyes and ears open, one OF our live
sagsciOus business men, paid the LIGHT
office a call recently, and referring to
extensive observations made and con-
versstiOns held during several days
| trsvelf said that he was fully convinced
| that north Texas was on the eve Of a
great reaction. That values had bsen
forced beyond the legitimate fig
uTes, and that those who had purchased
on the balloon market were sure to get
caught. This opinion, he said, was not
| confined to himself, but was shared and
! expressed by several intelligent real
estate capitalists Of St. Louis who were
] in his company,